Cisco Catalyst: It’s not a dead parrot; it’s in power-saving mode

Yell0wbeard’s Land of Silly Un-official Funny Fridays site has posted up its rendition of Monty Python’s

dead parrot sketch, but this time, the customer is returning a dead Cisco Catalyst switch. The sketch goes something like this:

“I would like to complain about this 24 port switch, I purchased from this very shop nary a half an hour ago”

“ahhh yes, the uh… the Uh Cisco Catalyst. What’s uh… What’s wrong with it?”

“I’ll tell you whats wrong with it. It’s completely dead! That’s whats wrong with it”

“No it’s not. It’s in power saving mode. Beautiful switch the Cisco. Pretty lights.”

“The lights have nothing to do with it. It’s completely dead!”

“It’s not dead, it’s in power saving mode. Pretty lights eh?”

“Right then. If it was working fine, why did it do nothing when it got back to my site”

“The Cisco normally operates in a low power mode on startup. Most likely a delayed startup to preseve the capacitors. Beautiful design. Such a nice colour”

You can read the rest of the sketch here and listen to the podcast recording here. At that link you’ll also hear Yell0wbeard’s version of the Lumberjack song, which it has renamed “I’m an IT Pro Song”.

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